Shade garden #2: east garden
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So beautiful and inviting. I've always loved the look of plants between stone walkways. -
LOVE it! -
Your whole garden is great, Becky, but I love your living rug. -
Thanks! What a challenge it was for me to lay all that turf block and make sure it was all level. For years it was just sanded, but sand didn't remain light white. Then, I discovered polymeric sand, and that's when I became a little more creative w/the dwarf mondo. I laughed as I thought of the "Living rug" and had to do it to compliment the arrangement. The dwarf mondo has not let me down! -
beautiful. i feel the work you put into this. :) -
Thanks Brenda; thankfully I have a strong back! Those blocks are pretty hefty, and back filling the individual cells about polishes off the reserve. By the time I was finished, I was ready for light duty.
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Becky H, that turf block is something I knew nothing about so I had to Google it. I love the look. Keep up the great work & thank you for the posting. -
Becky H, that is beautiful but I had to Google turf block since I never heard of it before. Thank you for a wonderful idea.
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Sherrie S., I'm absolutely surprised you didn't already know what it was.
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Absolutely beautiful Becky. I love the living rugs and mat at the back door for wiping ones feet before they come in. I've often found myself wiping my feet in the grass before coming inside, but never thought to make a living mat like you did. -
Thanks Becky, glad you like it. The dwarf mondo feels good on the feet. I first came up with the idea for the living rug and matt; after that, glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to plant mondo in a diamond pattern in the turf block cells and fill the rest with polymeric sand.
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It looks like a nice place to relax in the shade. -
You're welcome. It looks awesome. I'm not a barefoot type person, I know I'm weird, so I probably wouldn't get into the feel of it. Not sure where that phobia came from. Must have stepped on something yucky when I was a small child. (Add me shrugging shoulders here)
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Texas Ponds, thanks, it is. I created shade gardens on both the E & W sides of the home. That way, no matter what time of day, there's always a shady spot to sit out in. The back is full sun.
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Just call me the Bare Foot Contessa!
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Well today I had to get barefooted and hop into the water. My feet sunk right away in the sand. I was surprised now neat it felt! The last time (almost 40 years ago) my feet were wet and in hot sand I had to be rushed to the hospital with second and third degree burns on the bottom of my feet and between my toes. Hmmmm..... Maybe that's when I started wearing shoes all the time. Ya think?
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That would do it! Had to hurt!
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Oh it sure did, though you'd have never known it because I couldn't stop laughing. The nurses at the hospital said I was going into shock. I think I just thought it was funny because my boyfriend was rushing out of the park while I was trying to keep my feet in water in my beach bag when a park ranger stopped us. When he saw my feet he had us follow him to the nearest hospital. Then when the nurses were using a plastic brush to get the sand out from between my toes it tickled. They thought ...»
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When I was a kid, I blistered the bottoms of both feet on hot asphalt. No, it wasn't freshly poured, it was how hot asphalt gets here during the summer. It was uncomfortable for a while. I think if someone was brushing between my toes and the bottoms of my feet, I'd have been laughing too. For sure it would tickle.
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Another couple things we have in common! Burnt and ticklish feet.
